speaker boehner saying i'm speaking guardedly. grandstanding out there is not going to do anything for anyone. max baucus senator from montana said we are 31 days away from this thing nothing is going to get done until we are at the deadline which is sad. >> nothing would be done the way they have worked together over the last four years or so. let's look exactly what the president is proposing. >> dave said met with. [ laughter laughter this is what mitch mcconnell laughed at. he laughed at timothy geithner put toward this plan. >> $1.6 trillion in tax increases. >> that's double when they were trying to negotiate a grand bargain a year ago. how exactly do you think republicans are going to accept that? it is laughable. especially when you are talking about not just raising rates but raising capital gains on investments and dividends. also piling on top of it new stimulus spending. >> $50 billion in stimulus spending. haven't we gone through enough stimulus spending? >> cuts that some say may never be realized and are to this poi